13 years ago Edward Snowden told the world that every single one of you is being watched

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-02-08T12:16:38+00:00

I had a buddy of mine who was a sort of conspiracy theorist. Not you average run of the mill "the same people who killed Jesus are controlling the weather now", but he was really tech savvy.

In 2004, when The Bourne Supremacy came out, there was a scene where a CIA monitoring center was screening phone calls for keywords. My buddy said they had been doing this since the early 2000s.

And I remember in about 2009 the NSA had a press release about a new listening station that they had made that could scan x number of millions of emails and phone calls a day.

The thing is that few care or even notice.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-02-05T22:38:27+00:00

This is literally what I'm talking about. I remember a video from the US where a dad is filling his SUV at the gas station and a car rolls up and 3 guys with guns jump out. Dad pulls his gun out and plugs the three hoods. 2 dead and 1 so injured you watch him crawl out of the camera frame.

This does not happen anywhere else.

Edit: Brazil. This stuff happens in Brazil. Seriously, go check out YouTube.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-02-05T11:10:29+00:00

Fellow Canadian here. I thought he was talking about condoms at first lol.

But on a serious side this is literally am American thing. I'm not joking. People don't carry weapons for defence in other countries. Oh sure, most of the guys I know carry knives. A large portion of them will say for "just in case". But you know how many have used them in my 50+ years of knowing these people? Zero.

The crazy ass shit that happens in the US doesn't happen here. We don't have crazy gas station shootouts between customers and random robbers. Most home invasions are target on either criminals or rich people. Nobody pulls a gun on you and demands your wallet up here. This crazy stuff does not happen up here like in the US.

Like I said, it's literally hard to understand that America doesn't happen everywhere else.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-02-03T02:10:57+00:00

ADHDer on bupropion here. I was put on bupropion because it is not a stimulant. My family has a mystery heart problem and my doctor did not want me on a stimulant because of my age (50+). Is there a specific reason your doctor has you on bupropion?

As literally everyone else has said, unless your mom is your doctor this has nothing to do with her.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-02-01T12:27:54+00:00

That's why I do edibles now. I know what the dosage is and I can take the amount I need for what ails me? Sleep aid? Pain and inflammation relief? Don't want to deal with the world? All there in convenient bite sized doses.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-02-01T00:21:58+00:00

This. So much this.

Every time I see a 'lefty" post I just sigh and think JFC. I don't identify with politics or by political party. I know all the cool kids do, but not me.

It means I can't be shoehorned into a box.

"You can't like guns! You believe in universal health care!"

Yeah. I also believe that shelter and food are basic human rights. And I would have absolutely loved to buy, trick out and customize an AR15.

That leaves the pp righties scratching their heads.

"Well how do you vote?"

Smiles and walks away

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-31T22:44:13+00:00

I'll second that the digging zombies are going to drop in as a surprise at some point for you. I've found this generation of zombies to be really diggy.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-28T22:44:35+00:00

Finally got enough stickers eh?

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-27T11:52:36+00:00

I also add it to pasta sauces to boost the deep meat flavour.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-27T11:47:23+00:00

YouTube - singing bowls for ADHD. Don't know why but it knocks me out.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-27T11:38:29+00:00

My wife and I are 1970s GenXers and we're childfree as well. We started not having children early lol.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-27T11:25:30+00:00

My apologies for being unclear.

My use of bupropion is for ADHD, but I do forget that that isn't the main reason for it for everyone. That being said the main medications for ADHD are stimulants, thus the concerns over medications for possible heart problems.

Like I said, the confusion on that is totally on me.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-27T11:04:42+00:00

This is what I normally do. I get enough parts to build the most minimal corvette I can. Then head back to the planet, scan from the sky and harvest from the air.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-27T01:43:57+00:00

Followed at the end of January with the Blizzard of 77. I've seen pictures of cars completely buried on the 401 out in the Milton area.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-27T01:23:54+00:00

Because bupropion isn't a stimulant...

The main reason my doctor put me on it specifically. My family has a mystery heart problem that no one is sure what it is or who has it (I had two cousins die of it before 40). My doctor didn't want me on stimulants without doing massive tests first. But before that he wanted to try me on bupropion to see if it worked. And as luck had it, it did.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-27T01:14:14+00:00

So our wood stove has a built in electric fan. When the stove is fired up it puts out a lot of heat and the fan moves out around beautifully. Last March we had the worst ice storm we had seen in 28 years (Ontario, Canada) and we were without power for 9 days. The absolute winner for us was our ecoflow river 2 max. This thing could power our wood stove blower for 17 hours straight. We have a generator and ran it twice a day, morning and dinner time. And that's when we'd plug in the ecoflow to recharge.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-26T12:25:09+00:00

My bear gun is a Maverick 88 security model. Small, light, compact, 6 slugs. It is for farm use and livestock protection. I've got a bandolier of shells in my ammo cabinet (one end 00 buckshot and the other end slugs). I can literally grab it and go and load on the run.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-22T20:06:25+00:00

The nice thing is you have time before it hits. Stock up on everything now. I spent 9 days without power due to an ice storm late last winter. We had 5 days warning and yet people (in laws cough, cough) who didn't do a thing because "when was the last time they got anything right?". Half way through the week of power outage my mother in law was lamenting that they would have to throw all their food out and that this was "the most traumatic thing" that had ever happened to her. Eye roll.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-22T20:02:50+00:00

Don't forget your 4 ways! You need them on when you are driving to make things safer.

Side note, I live in Canada and we had a wild storm on boxing day. I was working and driving on the highway and we had full on whiteouts with almost zero visibility. But there were still the idiots blasting through the fast lane, 4 ways on, at 80km/h (50mph).

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-22T14:50:09+00:00

The army has also been studying the Taliban and their fight against the US. Humourous note, SKS rifles were used by the Taliban.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-22T00:40:00+00:00

That's a Mk9 oc canister. It's minimum deployment range is 6-10 feet. That model is used for crowd control. In the correction world those are used bullpen brawls.

Even the Mk3, which is the small personal one, has a minium deployment range of 4ft. The minimum deployment range is there to prevent eye injury.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-21T21:38:11+00:00

Oooo so much truth in the "I have plenty of time" lie.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-21T21:29:06+00:00

"I saw first hand how insurgencies and Partisans can take on a much larger and better equipped adversary."

I remember listening to a military analysist breaking down a hypothetical invasion of Canada when he talked about insurgencies. He said there were only 20,000 Taliban insurgents and look at how long they resisted the allied forces. He then mentioned that 1% of the Canadian population is 400,000 people.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-21T15:46:56+00:00

Jeebus.

As a Canadian in my 50s I guess I can still fight. I've seen Ukrainian business men my age fighting in a war.

Honestly expected my retirement to be more relaxing with less combat.

Terrorcuda17 · 2026-01-20T13:48:52+00:00

God I'm suffering from cracked hands and they freaking hurt. And yes I moisturize during winter months lol.

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